Advanced search and search operators

- [Voiceover] Welcome to Monday Productivity Pointers,…I'm Nick Brazzi.…We've decided to focus all of our…Monday Productivity Pointers this month…to the topic of searching.…Have you ever tried to search for something,…maybe on Google or Bing or Yahoo,…and you just can't find what you're looking for?…Well, there are techniques to make you better at searching…so that you will be more likely to find what you need.…And that's what this month is all about,…helping you find what you need on the web.…And I wanna start this week by showing you…how to compose more effective search strings.…

The key to an effective search is to use search operators.…Operators are special words or punctuation…that you can add to a search string to refine your search.…And these work in all the major search engines,…like Google, or Bing, or Yahoo,…or DuckDuckgo,…but they don't always work exactly the same way.…Let's start with the classic Boolean operators.…You may have seen these in various search tools…and these are the and operator,…which let's you include multiple…

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8/14/2017

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3/26/2013

In this weekly series on being productive with technology, authors Jess Stratton, Garrick Chow, and Nick Brazzi introduce tools and tips to help make today's software and devices work more efficiently and powerfully for you. With everything from pointers on using Microsoft Office and Google platforms to learning social networking skills and discovering the most useful apps for your iPhone or Android device, there's something for everyone.

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